Passing Data to Views - Laravel Views

In Laravel, views are used to display HTML content. Views can be created in Laravel using simple PHP, Blade templating engine, or any other templating engine of your choice. In this article, we will explore how to pass data to views in Laravel.

Syntax

return view('view-name', ['variable-name' => $value]);

In the above syntax, view-name is the name of the view and variable-name is the name of the variable that will be used in the view. $value is the value of the variable that will be passed to the view.

Example

// Controller logic
public function index() {
    $name = 'John Doe';
    return view('welcome', ['name' => $name]);
}

// View logic
<h1>Welcome, {{$name}}!</h1>

Output

When you access the URL that corresponds to the index() function in the controller, you will see a page that says "Welcome, John Doe!".

Explanation

In the example above, we are passing a variable $name with the value "John Doe" to the view welcome. In the view, we use double braces {{ }} to display the value of the variable.

Use

Passing data to views is essential when you want to display dynamic content to the user. For example, if you want to display the name of the logged-in user, you can pass that data to the view using the Auth facade, and then display it in the view.

Important Points

• You can pass any type of data to the view, such as arrays, strings, integers, objects, and so on.
• In the view, you can use any PHP function or syntax to manipulate the data.
• Passing data to views makes it easy to display dynamic content to the user.

Summary

In this article, we learned how to pass data to views in Laravel. We saw how to pass a variable with a value from the controller to the view, and how to display it in the view using Blade syntax. Passing data to views is essential when you want to display dynamic content to the user, and Laravel makes it easy to do so with its simple and intuitive syntax.